Trekking/Hiking is fun
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Howdy Geeks, I am sure like me many of you geeks are nature lovers and so you love trekking/hiking as one of your hobbies. As part of this side hobby for me, i would like to share a small article i wrote on my blog about my Himalayan expedition with you all. Hope it motivates a fellow indian/foreigner to love the beauty of india :) Since its a lounge, lets discuss about this hobby and share our expeditions and wild things we did. What say folks? P.S: Hope i am not violating any rules. Checked the rules before posting though :). Feel free to tell me if i am violating, i shall remove it.
zenwalker1985 wrote:
:thumbsup: Wonderful - so far we've limited ourselves to Europe - the most memorable moment was when we had to take refuge in a ski lift during a summer hike in the mountains near Saint-Lary-Soulan because a bear wanted to make our acquaintance ;)
Espen Harlinn Senior Architect, Software - Goodtech Projects & Services
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zenwalker1985 wrote:
:thumbsup: Wonderful - so far we've limited ourselves to Europe - the most memorable moment was when we had to take refuge in a ski lift during a summer hike in the mountains near Saint-Lary-Soulan because a bear wanted to make our acquaintance ;)
Espen Harlinn Senior Architect, Software - Goodtech Projects & Services
oh thats very wild you did. Good, do not limit yourself to EU. Your most welcome to india :) Oh btw, i love EU too. The country side of EU is amazing.
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oh thats very wild you did. Good, do not limit yourself to EU. Your most welcome to india :) Oh btw, i love EU too. The country side of EU is amazing.
zenwalker1985 wrote:
Your most welcome to india
Well, thanks - I've been told that hiking around Gangotri is supposed to be amazing...
Espen Harlinn Senior Architect, Software - Goodtech Projects & Services
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Blasphemy! :-D
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Howdy Geeks, I am sure like me many of you geeks are nature lovers and so you love trekking/hiking as one of your hobbies. As part of this side hobby for me, i would like to share a small article i wrote on my blog about my Himalayan expedition with you all. Hope it motivates a fellow indian/foreigner to love the beauty of india :) Since its a lounge, lets discuss about this hobby and share our expeditions and wild things we did. What say folks? P.S: Hope i am not violating any rules. Checked the rules before posting though :). Feel free to tell me if i am violating, i shall remove it.
Having gone there before, I know how great it is. Try going Sikkim. It is very beautiful place. Places in Sikkim are not really like ones in Himachal where there is a lot of crowd. If you like riding motorcycles, go Leh Khardung La.
"The worst code you'll come across is code you wrote last year.", wizardzz[^]
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zenwalker1985 wrote:
Your most welcome to india
Well, thanks - I've been told that hiking around Gangotri is supposed to be amazing...
Espen Harlinn Senior Architect, Software - Goodtech Projects & Services
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zenwalker1985 wrote:
Your most welcome to india
Well, thanks - I've been told that hiking around Gangotri is supposed to be amazing...
Espen Harlinn Senior Architect, Software - Goodtech Projects & Services
Any where in himalayan range is amazing.
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Having gone there before, I know how great it is. Try going Sikkim. It is very beautiful place. Places in Sikkim are not really like ones in Himachal where there is a lot of crowd. If you like riding motorcycles, go Leh Khardung La.
"The worst code you'll come across is code you wrote last year.", wizardzz[^]
Yep my next voyage is towards leh and ladakh.
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Howdy Geeks, I am sure like me many of you geeks are nature lovers and so you love trekking/hiking as one of your hobbies. As part of this side hobby for me, i would like to share a small article i wrote on my blog about my Himalayan expedition with you all. Hope it motivates a fellow indian/foreigner to love the beauty of india :) Since its a lounge, lets discuss about this hobby and share our expeditions and wild things we did. What say folks? P.S: Hope i am not violating any rules. Checked the rules before posting though :). Feel free to tell me if i am violating, i shall remove it.
Mine was in the early 1980s when I went to Malawi. On a blistering hot summer's day (it was easily 30 degC+) I walked with a progressively heavier rucksack (so it seemed) and it took me nearly eight hours to get to the top. There was a small mission hospital on the plateau and the Malawian doctors who ran it let me pitch my tent on their lawn and gave me buckets of cool water for my feet and a cold shower which was absolutely divine. I spent three days exploring the plateau and then headed down to start the walk to Cape MacClear. The down journey took less then three hours and my feet were punished for it. At the bottom I could not walk another inch as all of my toes were blistered and almost blood red with the endless pounding they took. I hitched a ride back to the hotel in Blantyre and hobbled back to the hotel I'd left a few days earlier. They called a local doctor who gave me first aid and a powder for my feet. I chilled out for a week as I could not get an earlier flight. It gave me time to shuffle around Blantyre and I enjoyed the town. An old colonial gent staying at the hotel on business offered me a ride to the Cape which I happily accepted and I booked into a small hotel when we got there. By Jove, they treated me well there. He took me back to Blantyre for the long return flights to Lilongwe, then to Harare, then Gaberone and back to Johannesburg. I never went hiking ever again after that. I entered a travel writing sponsored by SAA and I won it. My prize was a return flight to and from Cape Town and my article appeared in their in-flight magazine. My only claim to fame.
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I am a nature lover. The world is full of many beautiful and delicious animals. I have travelled the world eating weird and wonderful things, like locusts and snakes in SE Asia to Capybara when I was up the Orinicco Rain Forest.
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I am a nature lover. The world is full of many beautiful and delicious animals. I have travelled the world eating weird and wonderful things, like locusts and snakes in SE Asia to Capybara when I was up the Orinicco Rain Forest.
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] Trolls[^]
Hey the Orinoco is not a rain forest, it is a river in a rainforest (the Amazon). None the less the Orinoco flows to some beautifull sceneries. We used to live in Puerto Ordaz (Venezuela) which is close to the Caroni River (a tributary to the Orinoco). That's were I learned to eat Liguana. The meat is mostly white and stringy, and no it does not taste like chiken.
If only closed minds would come with closed mouths. Ego non sum semper iustus tamen Ego sum nunquam nefas!
